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Entertaining Sales Pitch Songs – 1
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I remember a very interesting scene from a film, seen long back on Doordarshan, whose name I am not able to recall right now. The scene is in a moving train. I think it is a Kishore Kumar film, but not very sure. A person is selling ‘barfi’ in the train. (‘Barfi’ is an Indian sweet made from milk and sugar). He is carrying a tray full of barfi pieces, and is trying to catch the attention of the travelers, to sell and to earn. He is not having much success. He comes in front of Kishore Kumar, and a dialogue ensues. Kishore asks him why should I buy this barfi from you. The seller gives some very simple answers like it is good to eat and he needs to earn money. Kishore tells him he will never be able to make a sale with such kind of answers. Then he offers to make the sales pitch for him. He conjures up a funny and interesting jingle about the barfi on the spot, and tries to catch the attention of fellow travellers, singing the jingle he has just created. Of course he is able to make a lot more sales. The seller is very impressed, and the two strike a friendship that lasts through the film.Read more on this topic…

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On Sunday (21 Dec), when the gangout happened in Bombay, many things converged together, including a lot of birds of the same feather. And with it also came the ideas around another new series (this one). But more about the series later.Read more on this topic…

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Nowhere other than in love, is the weight felt more heavily of sarcasm of that age old phrase – “promises are meant to be broken”. After the flowers and dreams, the sun and the stars, it is inevitable that the reality checks in. The reality of life that is – the reality of relations, the reality of social variances, the reality of the difficulties of life that will incessantly continue to overwhelm, and above all the realities of personalities. More often than not, it is the personal motivations, personal desires and dogmas, personal fancies and choices, that manifest as roadblocks and potholes on the road to satisfied love. Those who are not well adept at managing and driving around these obstacles, more often than not, find themselves in the wells of misery.Read more on this topic…

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Greetings to Vinod Khanna on his 68th birthday. (6 october)

A commanding personality to contend with on screen. In whatever role he appears, he has the capacity to be the center of gravity in every scene. In the last scenes of ‘Mere Gaon Mera Desh’ (1971), appearing as the sardaar (leader) of a gang of dacoits, he is down and beaten, by Dharmendra. Even in that scene, he exudes strength, and gives the perception of being the stronger.Read more on this topic…

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Friends, we are on the grandstand day today, now slowly moving towards the coveted 10K target which will be reached later in the day today. In the interim past few days, the pace has somewhat been slow, since Atul ji himself has been traveling on work for some of the days in the past two weeks. In fact he is in travel even today, and his posts are now coming from Nagpur.Read more on this topic…

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The mention of this name brings to mind, the mindless sidelining and disregard of talent that was ever the most gifted and capable. But that is life – the unfortunate unkindness it metes out to some people is beyond our intelligence to understand. Comes to mind the lines of Meera Bai’s bhajan –

Koel Kar Dini Kaali
Santo, Karman Ki Gati Nyaari

That the Koel bird is endowed with such a beautiful voice that is incomparable, but the same Maker also made it black and ugly, such are the vagaries of destiny.Read more on this topic…

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“Ladaaki” was a Roop K Shorey movie that was begun sometime in 1950s. A few songs were recorded for the movie and then the project was shelved.Read more on this topic…

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“Mumtaz Mahal” (1957) was directed by Ram Daryani for Nigam Films. The movie had Jairaj, Sheela Ramani, Veena, Agha, Umesh, Nazir Kashmiri etc in it.Read more on this topic…

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“Mumtaz Mahal” (1957) was directed by Ram Daryani for Nigam Films. The movie had Jairaj, Sheela Ramani, Veena, Agha, Umesh, Nazir Kashmiri etc in it.Read more on this topic…